Book your ticket for next year's Paris airshow: the Airbus A380 Super Jumbo is expected to fly in 2005 at the show.
It will depend on the European manufacturer keeping the programme on schedule, with roll-out by the end of the year and first flight early in 2005.
It is too early to say what kind of flying display it could turn in: that will depend on the flight test programme.
Airbus promised at the last Le Bourget that it would fly at the show in the French capital in two years' time and the European manufacturer says that nothing has changed in its plans.
Mouth-watering
Gifas, organiser of the June show, expects the aircraft to fly at the event, assuming the A380 programme remains on track.
Subassemblies for the first batch of aircraft are coming together at plants across Europe, before final assembly of the first aircraft begins in the middle of this year.
The A380 assemblies under construction include those for the flying aircraft, MSN001, as well as the static test airframe. The first set of subassemblies to arrive at Toulouse will be for MSN001, but the first to be finished will be the static test airframe.
Seeing MSN001 over Le Bourget next year is a truly mouth-watering prospect.
Source: Flight Daily News
